Yahoo, AT&T alliance on the rocks?
For five years it has been a perfect marriage: AT&T's DSL offering layered with Yahoo's consumer-friendly services. Yahoo provided SBC (now AT&T) with what it has never been able to figure out: how t...
Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching
A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to create a vast public database intended to be read by computers rather than people, paving the way for a more automated Internet in wh...
Palm Responds to the iPhone
Palm Inc., the maker of hand-held computers, has hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the challenge posed by Apple's new iPhone. — The designer, Paul Mercer, a form...
iTunes: Just how random is random?
Think that song has appeared in your playlists just a few too many times? David Braue puts the randomness of Apple's song shuffling to the test — and finds some surprising results. — Quick — think ...
Google Keyword Tool Showing Number of Previous Month's Searches
Just caught this development this morning. — Click for larger image.
Ban on YouTube in Turkey Is Lifted
Turkey Lifts Its Ban on YouTube, 2 Days After a Court Ordered the Web Site Blocked — ISTANBUL, Turkey Mar 9, 2007 (AP)— Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube, an official for the country's largest teleco...
Big Profits in Small Packages
If there's any good news about the businesses of newspapering these days, it can be found at the industry's littlest papers, which are doing well even as their bigger brothers founder. — The average...
Technorati 100: What's Hot in the Blogosphere
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — Earlier this week Emre wrote about declining traffic on Technorati and considered the exit options for this blog vertical search and portal si...
Google Shows Popular Videos from the Blogosphere
Google Video has a new section on the homepage: Blog Buzz, that features the videos from YouTube and Google Video that are discussed the most in the blogosphere. I assume that the ranking includes Go...
10 Fun Facts About Storage
TECH HISTORY: The New York Times had a nice story about dressy hard drives that reminded me how much of our digital lives are dependent on this often ignored low-margin business. As mentioned before,...
MCREVAMP USA Today Walks the Talk of Audience Involvement
When a major newspaper announces it is redesigning its print layout or website, it doesn't usually merit much attention. The regular readers usually complain about it, and then get used to it, and li...
Microsoft move could be the end of the JPEG
Company seeks to makes its HD format a standard — Microsoft Corp. will soon submit to an international standards organization a new photo format that offers higher-quality images with better compres...
Demo Day: Y Combinator's Spring Chicks
After Condé Nast, owner of Wired and other magazines/websites, acquired Y Combinator funded Reddit, people took notice. This wasn't just some quirky incubator where they gave college students a few b...
Friday Fun: Weird Search Engines
While the serious talk today is about Freebase, a new next-gen search engine from Danny Hillis, it's the end of the week and so time for a bit of fun. Author of the popular Top Alternative Search Eng...
Starting a new chapter @ Microsoft
Today is my last day working in Windows Live Operations, excuse me...Global Foundation Services [fancy new name announced a few months ago]. … Anyway, I won't be saying "I work in Ops, um, Global Foun...
The Pros and Cons of Personalized Search
In the past two weeks I've had the opportunity to talk to both Marissa Mayer and Matt Cutts about the impact of personalization at Google. While the initial storm following Google's announcement seem...